Cuff-holder.



' G. WALKER.

GUPF HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED DBO.18, 1907.

923,738. Patented June 1, 1909.

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CHARLES WALKER, OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA.

CUFF-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 1, 1909.

Application filed December 18, 1907. Serial No. 407,057.

lb all whom it may concern:

die it known that I, CHARLES VVALKER, a citizen of the Unlted States, residing at Charleston, in the county of Charleston and State of South Carolina, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cuff-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to what I shall for convenience term a cuff holder, although a device embodying my invention canbe put to other advantageous uses, and the object thereof is to provide a cuff holder in the manner as hereinafter set forth, whereby it will only be necessary to adjust the cuff but once and not necessary to effect the adjustment when it is desired to remove the cuffs or to connect themwith the sleeves of the shirt and under such conditions overcoming the necessity of adjustment when a cuff is removed and replaced in position.

My cuff holder possesses other advantageous features which, with the foregoing, will be set forth at length in the following description wherein are outlined in full certain effective forms of embodiment of the invention which I ha\e selected for illustration in the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification; the novelty of the invention will be included in the claims succeeding said description.

Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevation of a cuff holder including my invention and showing the manner of using the same. Fig. 2 is a cross section taken through the clip. .Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the parts of the cuff holder separated from each other. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of said clip, and Fig. 5 is a top plan view of the same. Fig. 6 is a perspective View of the spring shown on said clip. F 7, 8, and 9 are detail views of modifications of a cuff engaging member, Fig. 7 being in perspective and Figs. 8 and 9 being in side elevation. Fig. 10 is a perspective view of a modified form of clip or shirt-engaging member.

Like characters refer to like parts throughout the several figures of the drawings.

My cuff holder comprises in the present case a cuff-engaging part or member and a shirt-engaging part or member; these two parts may be of any desirable character, several forms of them being represented in the drawings and being hereinafter more fully described. Said parts are separably connected together in such a way that they can be readily detached with the object of obtaining the advantage to which allusion has hereinbefore been made. The connection between the two parts is preferably an interlocking one by reason of which said two parts cannot be accidentally separated, although they can be readily taken apart by manipulation.

Referring first to Figs. 1 to 6, inclusive, and more especially to Figs. 1 and 3, the cuff holder therein shown includes a cuffengaging member such as that denoted in a general way by 2, and a shirt-engagingmember such as that denoted in a general way by 3. The body of the cud-engaging member 2 is shown as consisting of an elongated shank or rod 4 and, if desired, it may be composed of wire. The forward terminal of the body 4 is made in the form of a lateral bend 5 which, in turn, terminates at its forward end ina hook as 6 extending upward from the said bend 5. Connected with the bill or upper end of the hook 6 is one end of the substantially Ushaped bend 7, the other end of the said bend 7 being connected with the upper end or bill of a hook as 8 complemental to and practically a duplicate of the hook 6. To the lower end of the hook 8 is connected a coil as 9, said coil 9 being in the planeof the lateral bend 5. Said lateral bend 5 and coil 9 present collectively a hearing portion, the upper or outer surface thereof bearing against the under surface of the cuff between the buttonhole and the inner edge thereof, as shown clearly in Fig. l, and preventing axial movement of the stem or rod 4 and necessarily turning movement of the bend 5 and coil 9. The two hooks 6 and 8 present a button at the outer end of the body or rod 4. They are thrust through the buttonhole of the cuff and are drawn rearward until the inner wall of the buttonhole lies snugly in said hooks, the bend or neck 7 at this time overlying the outer surface of the cuff forward of the buttonhole thereof, all as shown clearly in said Fig. 1. This bend 7 by obtaining a firm bearing upon the exterior of the cuff, aids the parts 5 and 9 in preventing axial or turning movement of the body or rod 4. The body 4 is shown as having at the inner end thereof a lateral projection 10 to which is shown as rigidly fastened a substantially spherical stud as 11 constituting one section of a snap joint between the culf-engaging and sleeve-engaging members of the device. From this stud is shown extending outward an arm 12 terminating in a flat coil 13 which constitutes a finger or thumb piece to facilitate the connection or disconnection of the members of said snap joint. If desired, the cuff-engaging member just described at length may be made of wire in one piece. The shirt-engaging member 3 is shown as consisting of a clip, the jaws thereof being pivotally connected together by a pin as 14, and the working portions of said jaws being serrated as indicated in Fig. 4. The jaws of the clip 3 are held normally closed by a spring as 15 represented as coiled about said pin and the terminal whirls of which are provided with extensions as 16 and 17 acting against the respec tive jaws for the purpose set forth. The extension 17 has an elongated return bend as 18 extending across the perforation or hole 19 in the outer aw and through which the headed or substantially spherical stud 11 is thrust, said return bend 18 or the straight portion or body thereof constituting a latch for interlockably holding the two members of the cuff holder together. In Fig. 3 the cuff-engaging member 2 and shirt-engaging member 3 are shown as separated. To connect them, the stud 11 will be passed through the perforation or seat 19. lVhen the stud strikes the straight portion of the return bend 18, such straight portion is moved outw ardly until the portion of greatest diameter of the stud passes the said return bend or stud-holding latch 18, at which time the latter is moved inward by its own resiliency and against the portion of less diameter of the stud so as to prevent accidental separation of the cuff-engaging and shirt-engaging members of the device. The two parts of the fastener can be easily united in two different ways, one, by simply pressing the stud 11 into the perforation or hole 19, the clip 3 at this time resting upon the arm, and the other, by bringing said clip up againstthe stud, the thumb at this time resting beneath said clip and two of thefingers resting on the finger-piece 13 or engaging the shank or body at near said finger-piece.

In Fig. 7 I have shown a modified form of cuff-engaging member, and the same includes a body portion as P having near its forward end an outwardly bent portion 5 provided with a hook as 6 to the bill of which is connected one end of a substantially U-shaped portion or neck 7*, the other end of said U-shap'ed portion or neck having a downward bend 7 merging into the bend 9 complemental to and opposite the bend 5 The two bent portions 5 and 9 present together a substantially rectangular skeleton structure the end bars "of which are open. The vtwo bends 5 and 9 perform the same functions the parts 5 and 9 hereinbefore described. At the inner end of the body 1* is an inward projection 10 having a bend or hook 11 constituting a stud, the equivalent of the stud l1 hereinbefore described and which is adapted for connection with a shirt-engaging member or clip such as 3 or which may be connected with any other suitable form of shirt-engaging member such as the clip 3 illustrated in Fig. 10 and hereinafter )il1l'l('l1l2ll'l described.

The modified form of cuff-engaging member 2" shown in Fig. 8 involves in its makeup an arm or body as 10" provided with a stud as 11", and to the arm 10 may be connected a head or finger-piece 13" for facilitating the connection of the stud 11 with or its disconnection from a suitable shirtengaging member whether it consists of a clip 3 of a clip 3. The arm 10 is connected with one end of a cord or other suitable flexible connection as l, while to the other end of said cord is connected a button as (5" the head of which may, if desired, be pivoted.

The shirt-engaging member shown in Fig. 9 is exactly like that shown in Fig. 8, except for the connection between the button 6" and arm 10. Instead of connecting the parts 6 and 10 with a cord I may use a spring as 4".

The modified form of clip 3 shown in Fig. 10 is constructed wholly of wire, it being represented as consisting of an inner jaw member as 20 and an outer jaw member as 21. The inner jaw member 20 includes in its construction two parallel and slightly downwardly bowed side branches as 22 connected at their forward ends by a cross bar as 23 constituting the operative portion of the member "20 and serrated along its upper edge. At their rear ends the two sides 22 are inwardly bent as at "ll and '35. Inwardly beyond the bends 2-1 and are bent portions 26 and 27 which terminate in oppositely disposed substantially U-shaped portions 28 and 29, the free branches 30 and 31, respectively, of these U-shapcd portions 28 and 29 constituting pivots or pintles for pivotally connecting the two jaw members 20 and 21. The sides of the outer jaw member 21 are designated by 32 and 33, respectively, being connected at their forward ends by a cross bar 3%. cooperative with the cross bar 23, serrated on its inner edge, and constituting the operative portion of the jaw member 21. The substantially parallel sides 32 and 33 are provided between their ends with downwardly ex tending eyes 35 and 36 which receive for turning movement the pivot portions 30 and 31. In addition to these eyes 35 and 30, the sides 32 and 33 have downwardly bent projections or loops 37 and 38 located between the U-shaped members 28 and 29 and movable adjacent to the transverse or cross portions of said U-shaped parts 28 and Q9,

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by means of which lateral motion of the jaw members is precluded. The outer ends of the sides 32 and 33 have inward bends as 39 and 40 which are projected inward in the form of arms 41 and 42, the arms terminating at a point forward beyond the cross bar 23 and bearing against the under side of said cross bar. These arms 41 and 42, by virtue of their resiliency, provide the necessary power to hold the cross bars 23 and 84 normally in contact, although said cross bars can be separated to receive the fabric of the shirt by moving the bends 24 and 25 toward the bends 39 and 40 respectively. The arms 41 and 42 between their ends are outwardly bowed as at 43 and 44 to present an opening for a stud such as 11, 11, or 11 whereby the sections may be united by a snap joint.

It will be clear that the cuff holder comprises two readily separable members which can be connected up or separated at will when it is desired to put in place or remove a cufi. One of these members is adapted to be buttoned to a cufl, while the other is adapted to yieldingly engage the shirt sleeve. The two members of the cuff holder may be of radically different forms from those shown as may fall within the scope of the claims hereunto appended. While the shirt or sleeve engaging member clips be tween its aws the fabric of which the shirt sleeve is composed, this, of course, is not csential, nor is it essential that the cuff-engaging member be buttoned to the cufi", although parts of the cuff holder possessing such characteristics are of advantage.

i have indicated that the two members of the cuff-holder may be of radically differcnt form from those shown in the drawings. I have represented on a large scale in Figs. 4 and 5 an advantageous form of clip, the spring which serves to close the jaws of this clip having a projecting portion which constitutes a spring or yieldable latch for a stud or equivalent member. It will be clear from what has been stated that this spring and its latch or stud-holding extension can be made in ways other than that illustrated by said Figs. 4 and 5.

hat I claim is:

1. In a cuff holder of the type set forth in combination, a two-part member constructed for gripping engagement with a shirt sleeve and a second member having button means one end for engagement with a cuff and having also means at its other end for detachable locking engagement with one of the parts of said first named member forwardly of the pivot thereof.

In a cuff holder, a two-part shirt sleeve engaging member, means active to hold the parts of said member in closed relation, and a cult engaging member having means for detachable and interlocking engagement with said shirt sleeveengaging member and maintained in such engagement by said first named means.

3. A cuff holder comprising a clip provided with a spring to hold the aws thereof closed, and a cuff-engaging member separably connected with the clip, the spring for the clip having an extension constituting a latch to prevent the accidental separation of the cuff-engaging and sleeve-engaging members.

4-. A cuff-holder including a cuff-engaging member provided with a body having at one end a lateral bend, a hook connected with the lateral bend, a U-shaped portion connected with the hook, and a lateral bend complemental to the other lateral bend, con nected with said U-shaped portion, the two lateral bends presenting together a bearing portion to engage against the inner surface of a cuff for preventing axial movement of the said cuff-engaging member.

In a cuff holder, a twopart shirt sleeve engaging member, means active to hold the parts of said member in closed relation, said means including a spring forming one element of a snap joint, and a cufi' engaging member having means forming the other element of the snap joint for engagement with said spring, said last means and said spring forming snap joint means for separably connecting said members.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES VALKER.

Witnesses:

A. CRAMER Kos'rnn, A. BRANDT. 

